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Vendors oppose city's planned levy
The Harare City Council's proposed 2025 budget has sparked resistance from vendors over the inclusion of new levies for street lighting and emergency services. These charges are aimed at addressing th...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:05hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Vendors threaten to sue HCC over violence
INFORMAL traders have threatened to sue the Harare City Council (HCC) for using severe force during raids against suspected illegal vendors.This follows a video circulating on social media sho...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers, lithium miner clash
HORTICULTURE farmers in Goromonzi have accused the Platinum Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) mine of negatively affecting their socio-economic life, while others have welcomed the miner's activities in the area...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hundreds stranded at Beitbridge
THERE was chaos at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday as hundreds of Zimbabwean cross-border traders had their goods confiscated after they were caught up in a rush to leave South Africa amid growing di...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
No to politisation of operating spaces
THE Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is disturbed by the reports of politicisation of operating spaces on a piece of land adjacent to the traffic lights at Malvern and...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Viset
Zimbabwe govt must introduce social safety nets for unpaid care givers
VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is part of a steering committee working group on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).The working group is convened by the Wom...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Viset
Peter Mutasa takes over as CiCZ chair
TRADE unionist Peter Mutasa was Wednesday elected as the chairperson of Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) in a tensely-contested virtual election.He managed to poll 53% of the vote against h...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Formalise your operations, vendors told
INFORMAL traders have been urged to formalise their businesses to access finance including loans from banking and other micro-financial institutions.The Vendors Initiative for Social and Econo...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Let our youth register to vote en masse
ON October 15, 2021, Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) launched its informal sector voter education campaign dubbed the Enhanced Informal Sector Voter Mobilisation and ...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Viset information
Inclusivity vital for pension policy formulation
VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) takes note of the disclosure of diminished contributions by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) deputy director Tambudzai Jo...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Viset Information
Cops extorting sex from vendors
POLICE officers and municipal cops are allegedly demanding sex from female illegal vendors to facilitate their release, it has emerged.This was revealed at the virtual launch of the informal w...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lockdown extension irks informal traders
INFORMAL traders yesterday expressed anger over the extension of the level four lockdown period by two more weeks without provision of social grants to cushion them. President Emmerson Mn...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Lockdowns without social grants won't work'
THE extension of level 4 lockdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa without providing fundamentals such as social safety nets would continue forcing citizens to breach the prescribed safety regulations ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says people must rescue themselves
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the ongoing demolitions of illegal structures by government was a signal for the people of Zimbabwe to say enough is enough and converge to rescue the...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as demolitions rock Harare
POLICE yesterday barricaded roads leading into Harare's oldest and most populous suburb of Mbare to pave way for demolitions of informal business structures in an operation sanctioned by President Emm...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged to extend social safety nets
THE Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has called on the government to extend social safety nets to minimise the burden on breadwinners.The call comes as Vendors Initiative for Social and Ec...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Informal sector frets over new lockdown
Small traders say they are disappointed that authorities imposed a lockdown without cushioning them for the duration of the restrictions. President of the Vendors Initiative for Social and Eco...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 lockdown measures exposes Zimbabwe government's panic mode
THE new COVID-19 lockdown measures have exposed government's panic mode and failure to plan in dealing with a crisis which needs a scientific and inclusive approach, stakeholders said yesterday....Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Moses Matenga
COVID-19: Let us remain vigilant
THE Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) notes the introduction of a stiff lockdown by the government as announced by Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwen...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | 8 | by Viset information and publicity department
'COVID-19 lockdown increased human rights abuses'
HUMAN rights groups yesterday said Zimbabwe witnessed severe increased violations of people's rights this year due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown and pleaded with government to end the use of State ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looting protests: Vendors feel the heat
THE ongoing crackdown against perceived opposition activists following recent riots in Harare and other parts of the country has left vendors vulnerable. Most of them lost their wares, while trading i...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa put on spot over Aug 1 inquiry
LAWYERS, human rights groups and opposition parties have expressed fears that the report by the commission of inquiry into the post-election violence in which the military allegedly killed six civilia...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube's budget an economic horror script'
THE opposition MDC yesterday said Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's silence on currency distortions in the 2019 National Budget presented on Thursday demonstrated government's reluctance to deal with th...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over military, police testimonies
OPPOSITION parties, civil society and ordinary people reacted with outrage to the testimonies of military and police bosses who tried to exonerate themselves from the post-election violence in which s...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors stalls demolished at night
Vendors at the congested Copacabana termini in Harare arrived early in the morning on Saturday to find their market stalls destroyed with only heaps of rubble left.The demolishment was carried...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ropes in ZCTU for joint demo
Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has roped in erstwhile allies, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, vendors and college students for a joint massive demonstration on Wednesday to demand transparency and le...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Youths to decide 2018 elections?
The disclosure by Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba that 60% of the registered 5,3 million voters for this years' polls are aged between 18 to 40 means that this year's...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors vow to defy government
A vendor representative union yesterday vowed informal traders would defy a decree to leave street pavements across Zimbabwe's towns and cities until municipalities build alternative vending sites, de...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors blasts city council over harassment
Bulawayo Vendors Trust Association has blasted the City council for continuing to harass traders in the city."BVTA is deeply concerned by the continued harassment of vendors and informal trade...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 10:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare vendors defiant
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) and municipal police yesterday maintained a strong presence in Harare's central business district as they continued with their clampdown on vendors.Police last w...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Government insists on ill-advised eviction of informal traders
THE Zimbabwean government this week deployed police to chase vendors out of the streets of Harare in an effort to move them to so-called designated areas.The anti-riot police who have been mov...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 17:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe divorced from the suffering of ordinary citizens
OPPOSITION parties have blasted, First Lady Grace Mugabe over the impending eviction of close to 100 families from Arnold Farm in Mazowe, saying such an attitude spoke volumes of how she was divor...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe must go'
President Robert Mugabe should come to terms with the "sad reality" that he has reached the sunset of his reign and hand over power to a more energetic person for Zimbabwe to recover economically,...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors injured in scuffles with cops
MORE than 100 vendors have been injured by the police in central Harare, with some being hospitalised following a directive last month by the government to evict informal traders selling food in t...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka chickens out
Vendors and #Tajamuka activists yesterday failed to show up for a demonstration they had called in the Harare central business district (CBD).The protest was in reaction to a blitz launche...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare vows to continue vendor blitz
Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday vowed to appeal against a temporary injunction blocking the eviction of vendors from the CBD.Acting town clerk Josephine Ncube said they would escalate ...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Republic Police and Harare Municipal Police in Contempt of Court
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) is concerned that despite a High Court order by Justice David Mangota barring the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Harare City Council (HCC) police from confiscating...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 05:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
High Court blocks vendors' eviction
The High Court yesterday issued an injunction blocking the eviction of vendors from the Harare Central Business District (CBD).It also barred the Harare City Council (HCC) from demolishing...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZPP bemoans the reversal of the gains of independence
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has bemoaned the reversal of the gains of independence by the ruling Zanu PF saying despite the liberation war fighters having done a great job, it was sad that the ruling p...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe dragged to court
VENDORS affiliated to the Zimbabwe Informal Sector's Organisation (Ziso) are preparing to take the First Lady Grace Mugabe to court for taking their goods confiscated by authorities at border posts an...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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